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NH 97780 USS Boise (CL-47)

Photo #: NH 97780 USS Boise (CL-47)
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Title: USS Boise (CL-47)
Description: Seen from the island of USS Yorktown (CV-10) on 6 May 1943. A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter is parked on the carrier's deck-edge elevator, in the foreground. Note Boise's fresh Measure 22 camouflage, and her fifteen 6/47 guns trained on her port quarter at high elevation. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 97780
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